Daniel Powell

Daniel Powell is a Marie Skłowdowska-Curie Fellow in the Digital Scholarly Editions Initial Training (DiXiT) Network, an Action funded by the European Commission 7thFramework Programme for Research and Technological Development(FP7). He is based in the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London and affiliated with the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab and Department of English at the University of Victoria, with research interests in the digital humanities, social knowledge creation, media archaeology, graduate education in the humanities, cyberinfrastructure, and early modern culture. His work has appeared in Digital Studies / Le champ numérique, Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Reforme, Scholarly and Research Communication, and Religion and Literature, as well as in volumes published by the Modern Language Association, NeDiMAH, and the International Journal of Learning and Media.

He has led or contributed significantly to a number of digital humanities projects such as the Renaissance Knowledge Network (ReKN), an integrated research, analysis, and production environment modelled after the successful Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth Century Electronic Scholarship (NINES) project; A Social Edition of the Devonshire MS (BL Add. 17,492),a prototypical social scholarly edition; and The Map of Early Modern London, a GIS project that brings together maps, early modern nonfiction, fiction, drama, and scholarly encyclopaedia articles to create a digital atlas of early modern London for scholarly, pedagogical, and publication purposes.